"compile" vs. "tokenize" (was Re: Password Problem)

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Ken Brody propounded (on Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 02:20:51PM -0400):
| Jeff Harrison wrote:
| > 
| > Ken Brody Wrote:
| > [snip]
| > 
| > > >
| > > >         (I'm not exactly certain which verb to use with
| > > Quickstart.  Should
| > > > it be tokenize or compile or something else?)
| > >
| > > The word "compile" applies here.
| > >
| > 
| > Really?  I thought that filepro interpreted the .tok files.  "compile"
| > implies that the code is converted to object modules that can then be linked
| > to form an executable, no?
| 
| Well, to be "buzzword compliant", I would say that "filePro compiles to
| a bytecode for the filePro Virtual Machine".
| 
| Basically, it gets compiled to machine code.  It's just that the machine
| that it compiles for is not the physical machine that you're running.
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So: in the context of filePro, what does "tokenize" mean?

-- 
JP